Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist
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Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist
Join to apply for the Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist role at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Lewisham Personality Disorder Service, which aims to improve patients’ well-being and personality functioning. The main treatments are weekly individual and group therapy over 18 months: MBT and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). The post-holder will join the TFP arm of the service.
Due to the needs of our Personality Disorder Service, and to ensure the therapeutic needs of our patients are met, this position is open to female applicants only, as permitted under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1.
We would provide the post-holder with training and supervision. S/he would assess patients and deliver individual and group TFP. TFP is a specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients with severe psychopathology involving a highly structured treatment frame and a thorough diagnostic assessment
Specialist consultation to other teams is also part of the role, supporting CMHT staff in working with patients with a PD
We would train the post-holder in facilitating a SUN group. ‘Service User Network’ groups are coping skills and crisis planning groups. These use a containing structure, drawing on the ideas of group members to support each other
The post holder would need psychotherapy or clinical/counselling psychology qualification and experience of working with this patient group, some psychoanalytic training and/or experience, and broad mental health experience. We value diversity and welcome applicants from a BME background
* Deliver TFP individually and in groups.
* Assess patients
* Act as link with a neighbourhood’s community mental health teams, attending meetings, discussing referrals and offering advice on patients who may have a personality disorder
* Co-facilitate a SUN group.
The service was launched in 2021. There are 13 clinicians: psychotherapists, clinical and counselling psychologists, psychiatrist, OT and employment worker and administrator. We are a supportive team, with an ethos of collaboration.
Lewisham is a multi-ethnic London borough with good transport links. The Wallace Centre is located between Deptford High Street and Greenwich town centre.
Benefits
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and believe in a healthy work-life balance. We want you to feel part of a close-knit team, to feel valued. Our benefits package includes:
* Generous pay, pensions and leave, dependent on the role and length of service.
* Work life balance, flexible working and flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
* Career development, opportunities to progress and we support your development through mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
* Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
* Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
* Counselling
* Wellbeing events
* Cycle to work scheme
* Season ticket loan
* Childcare vouchers
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jonathan Radcliffe Job title: Head of service / consultant clinical psychologist Email address: jonathan.radcliffe@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07794594413
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